Thinking in the heat must be bad for you because every major think tank  seems to be MIA this week. Can you get Palinized for thinking? MORE »

August is a miserably hot month that serves no purpose other than to remind us a) that we wasted June and July and b) that we should probably do something valuable with our lives. We don’t even get any holidays — it’s just a harbinger of bad things to come, like the end of summer. So, we have made it our DUTY to bring some semblance of meaning to this otherwise unimportant month, but so far all we’ve come up with is YOU using August to relax and get in touch with your soul via … yoga. MORE »

The heat and Today’s Cartoons have, quite possibly, driven our poor little cartoon expert the Comics Curmudgeon right over the edge. He’s starving them and making them fight — the upside is, whoever loses, we win!

After the jump — Joementum, Iraq, anti-semitic action stars, and the unbearable heat.

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• Heat Wave in California takes out aging power transformers, “When these transformers were installed, you had neighborhoods that weren’t air-conditioned, homes without two computers and five television sets.” [LAT]

• Bill Clinton stumped for Lieberman in Waterbury yesterday, “Lieberman did not mention Iraq or his support for the war, and Clinton touched only lightly on what he referred to as ‘the pink elephant in the room.’” [WP]
• 105 men “shackled at the wrists and the ankles” deported from Virginia. [WP]
• Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (Tex.) and Rep. Mike Pence (Ind.) sponsor new immigration plan today. Plan expects illegal immigrants to “self-deport,” apply for a visa, quickly return to work legally in the US. [WP]
• Govs. Schwarzenegger and Blagojevich pony up state money for stem cell research. [NYT]

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